Pediatric Hospitalist/Newborn Nursery

Location Detail: St Vincents Medical Center (10427)

Shift Detail: 24 hours shifts

Bridgeport, CT – Pediatric Hospitalist/Newborn Nursery - Full-time

Join a collaborative, patient-centered team at Hartford HealthCare, where we support our physicians in their professional and work-life balance goals.

Location(s):

Hospital: St. Vincent’s Medical Center, 2800 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06606-4201

Position Details

• Full time, newborn nursery and hospital pediatric coverage
• Schedule:
• Six (6) weekday shifts and two (2) weekend shifts per four (4) week cycle
• There are thirteen (13) cycles per year
• Each shift is twenty-four (24) hours
• For weekday shifts, physician must be on-site at the hospital between 5:00PM - 10:00AM of each twenty four (24) hour shift and available via phone between 10:00AM – 5:00PM
• For weekend shifts, physician must be on-site at the hospital for the entire twenty-four (24) hour shift
• Hospital coverage includes rounding on newborns, attending c-sections (both scheduled and emergent), managing photo therapy, occasional pedi consults to E.D. or floors, and stabilization of newborns for transport
• Faculty opportunity with Quinnipiac University teaching med students
• Support from neonatologists 24/7
• No circumcisions
• Hospital averages over 1,000 deliveries annually
  

Location:

Located just minutes to New York City and two hours from Boston, we are in the heart of New England’s most stunning communities offering your family nationally acclaimed school systems, a choice to live at the shore, in vibrant urban areas, near a major university or in a Kiplinger “Top 10 Best City to Raise a Family” and Travel & Leisure’s “Coolest Suburb in America”.

At Hartford HealthCare, Physicians Enjoy

• Highly competitive compensation
• Robust benefits including a generous 401K match, CME and paid time off
• Loan repayment support
• Generous Paid-Time Off
• Reimbursement for CME, professional society membership, licensure, and malpractice
• Opportunity to teach and precept students
  
  

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will possess:

• A passion for providing patient-centered care to a pediatric patient population
• A willingness to work closely and collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team
• An unrestricted State of Connecticut Medical License (or eligible)
• BC/BE in Pediatrics
  
  

Contact Information

Jennifer Straka, Physician Recruiter, Hartford HealthCare

Cell: 860-996-4441

Email: [email protected]